Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies-01.txt

Maybe I'm confused, but what is the relationship, if any, between
"draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies-01" (this I-D) and
"draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis" (the draft put forward by Steve Bingler and
others)?

They're both updates to RFC6365 "Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism"
RFC, correct? So what's the reason for having two separate I-Ds at the same
time?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:

> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies-01.txt is now available.
> It
> is a work item of the HTTP (HTTPBIS) WG of the IETF.
>
>    Title:   Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism
>    Authors: Anne van Kesteren
>             Johann Hofmann
>    Name:    draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies-01.txt
>    Pages:   46
>    Dates:   2025-11-18
>
> Abstract:
>
>    This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields.
>    These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state
>    (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a
>    stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol.  Although
>    cookies have many historical infelicities that degrade their security
>    and privacy, the Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields are widely used
>    on the Internet.  This document obsoletes RFC 6265 and 6265bis.
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies/
>
> There is also an HTML version available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies-01.html
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies-01
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>
>
>
>

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